The Planetary Gentrification Reader

Gentrification is a global process that the United Nations now sees as a human rights issue. This new Planetary Gentrification Reader follows on from the editors’ 2010 volume, The Gentrification Reader, and provides a more longitudinal (backward and forward in time) and broader (turning away from Anglo-/Euro-American hegemony) sense of developments in gentrification studies over time and space, drawing on key readings that reflect the development of cutting-edge debates. Revisiting new debates over the histories of gentrification, thinking through comparative urbanism on gentrification, considering new waves and types of gentrification, and giving much more focus to resistance to gentrification, this is a stellar collection of writings on this critical issue. Like in their 2010 Reader, the editors, who are internationally renowned experts in the field, include insightful commentary and suggested further reading. The book is essential reading for students and researchers in urban studies, urban planning, human geography, sociology, and housing studies and for those seeking to fight this socially unjust process.

Introduction PartOne Thinking bout gentrification today Introduction to Part One 1. What time is gentrification? Suileman Osman 2. Gentrification Elvin Wyly 3. Beyond Anglo-American gentrification theory Hyun Bang Shin and Ernesto Lopez-Morales 4.Revisiting 'the changing stage of gentrification' Manuel B. Aalbers PartTwo Planetary gentrification Introduction to Part Two 5. Planetary rent gaps Tom Slater 6. The discursive detachment of race from gentrification in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia Melissa M. Valle 7. The fire this time: Grenfell, racial capitalism and the urbanisation of empire Ida Danewid 8. In debt to the rent gap: Gentrification generalized and the frontier of the future Hamish Kallin PartThree Gentrification and comparative urbanism Introduction to Part Three 9. The geography of gentrification: Thinking through comparative urbanism Loretta Lees 10. Hybrid gentrification in South Africa: Theorising across southern and northern cities Charlotte Lemanski 11. Comparative approaches to gentrification: Lessons from the rural Martin Phillips and Darren P. Smith 12. Is comparative gentrification possible? Sceptical voices from Hong Kong David Ley and Sin Yih Teo PartFour Gentrification beyond Anglo-America Introduction to Part Four 13. Prolonging the global age of gentrification: Johannesburg’s regeneration policies Tanja Winkler 14. Desakota and beyond: Neoliberal production of suburban space in Manila's fringe Arnisson Andre C.Ortega 15. Socio-spatial legibility, discipline, and gentrification through favela upgrading in Rio de Janeiro Thaisa Comelli, Isabelle Anguelovski, andEric Chu 16. Housing transformation, rent gap and gentrification in Ghana's traditional houses: Insight from compound houses in Bantama, Kumasi Lewis Abedi Asante and Richmond JuvenileEhwi Part Five Planetary gentrification and digital transformations Introduction to Part Five 17. Holiday rentals: The new gentrification battlefront Agustín Cocola-Gant 18. The impacts of Airbnb in Athens, Lisbon and Milan:A rent gap theory perspective Alberto Amore, Cecilia de Bernardi and Pavlos Arvanitis 19. Platform-mediated short-term rentals and gentrification in Madrid Alvaro Ardura Urquiaga, Inigo Lorente-Riverola and Javier Ruiz Sanchez 20. Postsocialism and the Tech Boom 2.0: Techno-utopics of racial/spatial dispossession Erin McElroy PartSix Resisting planetary gentrification Introduction to Part Six 21. Resisting gentrification Sandra Annunziata and Clara Rivas-Alonso 22. Resisting the politics of displacement in the San Francisco Bay Area: Anti-gentrification activism in the Tech Boom 2.0 Florian Opillard 23. A city for all? Public policy and resistance to gentrification in the southern neighborhoods of Buenos Aires María Carla Rodríguez and María Mercedes Di Virgilio 24. When art meets monsters: Mapping art activism and anti-gentrification movements in Seoul Seon Young Lee and Yoonai Han

Loretta Lees is Director of the Initiative on Cities at Boston University, Boston, USA. Tom Slater is Tom Slater is Professor of UrbanStudies at Columbia University, New York City, USA. Elvin Wyly is Professor of Geography at the University of BritishColumbia, x?m??k??y??m (Musqueam) Territory, Vancouver, Canada.